1. We go through the basics of training in Blossom Hill (party splits, medals), at the place where Fos, the first Knight Commander, and the first Flower Knight he commanded, started. After taking out the boss pest, the vassal of the queen of Winter Rose, Rose Diana, appears. She's looking for Queen Novalis, who she got separated from and lost in Blossom Hill.
2. More gameplay mechanic explanations (puny pest nests, solar nodes), and Hydrangea appears at the end of this chapter, but has basically no story presence, for some reason.
3. Nazuna seeks out the Acacia group to help us find Novalis. Lupine and Dahlia haven't seen her, but Cherry Sage has an idea of her whereabouts. However, we find Saffron Pansy instead, a fellow Winter Rose knight. We just missed the queen, but Saffron Pansy manages to point us in the right direction.
4. Saffron Pansy tags along on our search for the queen. While searching, she (along with Cepha and St. Paulia) accidentally falls in a lake. This becomes a plot point later on. We finally find Novalis being attacked by pests. After saving her, our reputation gets boosted.
5. On our way to Lily Wood for our next mission, we get lost (no thanks to Cepha). We run into Saffron Tulip looking for ingredients, and with some difficulty, she points us in the direction of the town (and tries to pawn her "medicine" off us). We also find Priscilla Gladious, who was also lost and separated from her companion, Kikyou Bellflower.
6. At Lily Wood, the queen (who remains nameless) assigns us guard duty, and we meet Sweetpea, who we're assigned to help defend the area. While the area becomes overrun with pests, we also meet Olive, who is apparently a strategist on par with Di Yu, and gives us support. The two strategists become friends after the battle.
7. After Lily Wood's queen praises our efforts, we decide to go sightseeing to take a break, with Cary as our guide. Di Yu is excited about Lily Wood's history, but the pests have defaced the area. Di Yu is not happy.
8. Next is a return trip to Winter Rose. On the border between Lily Wood and Winter Rose, the trade route and fortress have fortified the road, but the Flower Knights decide to help clear the area of pests anyway. We find Olive once again commanding the troops, and Di Yu offers her skills to command the frontlines. Priscilla Gladious takes point, but ventures too far ahead, and is saved by the timely appearance of Kikyou Bellflower.
9. On the way to Winter Rose, we run into the other Pansy sisters, Violetta and Bianca Pansy. Violetta Pansy has just come from Lily Wood, having bought medicine from a certain someone, to cure her ailing sister. If you haven't guessed it, Saffron Pansy caught a cold from back in chapter 4, and Saffron Tulip sold medicine to Violetta Pansy to help her. Along the way, a pest steals the medicine, forcing us to track it down.
10. (the translation here starts getting weird)
Blue Lotus and Oncidium appear to help clear the pests. The wasp pests here are noted to be more intelligent than other pests, which gives the group a harder time, even with Oncidium's strength. After clearing out the pests, a blizzard strikes...
11. Our group gets stranded in the blizzard, and we happen to find Astra Galus buried in the snow. We find a safe haven for her to warm up, and make our escape once the blizzard settles. We stumble upon Cattleya's mansion, who grumpily but kindly dispels the blizzard and guides us to town.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ0bd0NUxlU
Meeting with Novalis once more (though she has no voiced lines), she holds a small party in celebration of our recent achievements. She then asks us to investigate some ruins and to determine the source of a strange song around those parts. On the way, we find Jasmine, who mentions in passing that she provided sniper overwatch against the pests in the previous chapters during the blizzards. She too is investigating the ruins, and has already found the source of the song to be none other than... Daisy! Daisy has found a map in her grandpa's room, and is using it to map out the ruins. Nazuna smells treasure, so she asks the group to tag along. After some searching, we find the center room full of treasure. However, Daisy opens a sealed door, releasing a swarm of pests, forcing everyone to escape and leaving the treasure behind.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85mnDk1L-NQ
We finally return to Blossom Hill, having decided a break was long overdue. Surprisingly, Canola is both frustrated and depressed from the last chapter, feeling inferior to Daisy's incredible skills (as she should be, Daisy is basically Canola 2.0). Luckily, Strawberry appears, and the two reconnect over their long separation. Strawberry asks Canola to investigate the source of some nearby earthquakes, which turns out to be Cactus beating the shit out of some pests. St. Paulia is an acquaintance of her, but Cactus is shy and momentarily runs away, allowing the pests to regroup. With some encouragement, Canola snaps back to her usual self and helps everyone defeat the pests.
14. Canola's ready to prove herself again, and Mei Plumblossom is spearheading a counterattack against the pests threatening Blossom Hill. However, Rose appears to push a few buttons and call our heroes "newbies", which sets Canola off. They challenge each other to see who can kill more pests, with Mei being the judge of who is the superior Flower Knight. At first, Rose obviously has the upper hand, but both Mei and Di Yu offer Canola a little advice: using a vantage point to single out the larger groups of pests, instead of indiscriminately taking them out one-by-one. At the end, Mei declares Canola as the victor, and Rose vows to get payback.